Great Sui Guoshi

Chapter 671

The setting sun sinks in the distant mountains, shedding its last rays of light.

woohoo~~

The night wind blows through the swaying forest with a chill, a big rock embedded on the hillside, there is a fire burning against the hazy moonlight, the old donkey lying on the ground next to the rock, blinking boredly at the bonfire over there There are four other scholars beside the owner.

"National teacher, how long do you think it will take us to return to the Central Plains? We have just finished one place, and we have reached another road with no end in sight."

Taoist Toad held the red rooster in his small bowl and took a deep breath of the porridge. From the corner of his eyes, Wang Feng spoke softly, and threw a dead branch into the fire.

Crackling and bouncing sparks soared upward.

Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting in the middle, closed his book and raised his face. He looked outside. In the night, there was dry grass and sparse forests, and the dry soil raised sand and dust. He was used to seeing the beautiful mountains and rivers of the Sui Kingdom. desolate.

Thinking about it, he smiled, and the four people who looked a little melancholy on their faces scooped up another spoonful of porridge for them.

"As long as you walk in the east direction, you can always go back. What's more, I use magic to travel faster than ordinary people using my legs. Of course, if there is no delay on the way."

"By the way, Liangsheng." Taoist Toad suddenly put down the delicate bowl, and turned to Toad's face: "I just remembered it as a teacher, where is the mermaid who was in the same boat as us?"

"......in the sea."

After being reminded by his master, Lu Liangsheng remembered that there was still a mermaid in the East China Sea. He considered that it was impossible to return by sea, and the other party could not stay out of the water for too long, so he could only choose to release her back to the sea. , almost forgot about the other party.

"After all, Dahai has figured it out. By now...he should be on his way back to the East China Sea..."

Lu Liangsheng forced a smile on his face, seeing the gloomy atmosphere, he simply took out a set of chess that he hadn't used for a long time from the bookshelf, and by the light of the fire, Taoist Toad walked aside without hesitation, picked up the sunspots, raised his toad face, and boldly swept Pass the four scholars on the opposite side.

"Who will play against the old man?!"

The four of them looked at each other, pushed and shoved a few times in an instant, scrambling to play chess with Daxian Toad, Lu Liangsheng chuckled twice, then took the book again and turned it over.

In the early morning of the next day, a few people had a simple meal and packed their bags. Lu Liangsheng rode on an old donkey and continued eastward with four scholars. Here, the leader of the old man introduced himself as a Greek who crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Egypt. He just dumped goods in Egypt and was going to bring some special products to Sassanid Persia.

"You are going east, be careful."

"what happened?"

"The Persians and the Arabs have not been very harmonious recently. Just don't get involved with religion in everything."

"That's it..."

Lu Liangsheng looked like an Egyptian at this time, and tried to keep the tone of the other side. When the intersection ahead parted, he saw Persian cavalry wearing open beards and pointed hats, with bows and knives around his waist, and turned to another road. The Greek business traveler at the intersection hastily lowered his head and took off his hat.

step, step, step~~~

The sound of the horse's hooves approached, and quickly passed the opponent, came to Lu Liangsheng and the others to take a look, and then continued to move forward.

woohoo~

One of them stopped suddenly, stroking the horse's mane and turning his head to look over, and asked in Greek, Lu Liangsheng on the other side responded calmly with a smile, and when he heard the accent, the Persian nodded, clamped the horse's belly, galloped up, and caught up The companions in front roared away.

After parting from the Greek caravan, the four Wang Feng who followed the old donkey came up and asked in a low voice, "Master, what did the barbarian cavalry say just now?"

"He asked me where I was going, and I said go to Persia, go further east, and see where the end of the East is."

Lu Liangsheng held the rein and looked back with a smile: "Actually, it doesn't matter what you say, he is testing our accent. The previous team of traders mentioned that Persia is in conflict with another country, probably because they are afraid that we are that country. Well, these are none of our business, let’s hurry up.”

Looking at the smoke and dust drifting into the sky ahead, the scholar said with a smile, but his brows were furrowed. Under the smoke and dust in the distance, there were faint sounds of hoofbeats, people's shouts, and the sound of swords and soldiers clashing.

Lu Liangsheng pulled the old donkey and immediately turned in a different direction.

"We'll go the other way."

When the wind and sand blew, the four of them covered their faces, squinted their eyes and were puzzled, "National teacher, how do you change the way so well?"

"Stop talking nonsense, the national teacher asked us to transfer, there must be a reason for the national teacher."

"Brother is right, what kind of person is the national teacher, how can we figure it out."

Amid the flattering words, the bright sunshine in the sky gradually dimmed in everyone's field of vision.

Going away to the direction where the cavalry disappeared, amidst the sound of hooves, the swords and soldiers collided and burst into sparks, and two groups of cavalry circled and fought there. Among them, five figures were mixed, pulling a donkey away from the battle group, and ran wildly into the desert .

"Behayi, let them kill, let's go!"

"This way!"

The four fleeing shouted back to the cheeky man with a scimitar, leading the donkey, and looking back from time to time, the two groups of cavalry who were entangled in the fight were facing each other, and it was difficult to tell the winner.

The spear pierced the chest of the Persian cavalry, and in the next second, the Byzantine cavalry holding the spear was struck off by another Persian cavalry rushing forward, brandishing a scimitar and beheading the head. He fell straight off the horse.

The clouds scattered in the sky, the sun shone on the earth, the voices of people screamed, the horses wailed and fell sideways, the sound of fighting and shouting stopped, and only a few Byzantine cavalry with spears remained to make up for the dead The Persians got back on their horses and chased them in the direction that those people ran away just now.

"The Arabs are also in the east, and they happen to be five, with a donkey. They must have killed the governor of Kalabsa!"

Immediately, the leading knight held out his spear and urged his horse to run wildly. The remaining ten cavalry shouted loudly and followed closely behind.

......

rustling......

Donkey's hooves and human footsteps walked across the soft sand. Lu Liangsheng, who avoided fighting in the distance, looked around and walked to a lone tree not far away. I have seen the map about going to Sasanian Persia, and there are many big cities in the middle.

On the other side, four scholars helped the old donkey pull some grass back, and when they saw the national teacher who seemed to be painting, they rushed towards each other.

"National teacher, do you want to paint?" "My old horse will grind ink for you."

"Get out of the way, I'm good at grinding ink, let me do it!"

"Three elder brothers, you are well-versed in poems and books, sage classics, how can you do such a thing... let the younger brother do it for you, and share the worries for the three elder brothers."

"Get out!" The other three shouted at him in unison.

Lu Liangsheng frowned, thinking that they were noisy, when he raised his face, the four people over there were all smiling, and at some point they stood by the old donkey with one hand behind their backs, nodding or nodding to each other, talking and laughing in a refined manner.

"The national teacher is painting, and the four of us should not make any noise."

"Well, what brother said is very true, very true."

These four guys... Lu Liangsheng sighed, and was about to sink his head into writing, when he suddenly turned his head and frowned even more. In the distance, there were five figures, leading a donkey, as if being chased by something, He was stumbling and running over.

"Why is this... the picture so familiar."

In the shade of the trees, Lu Liangsheng passed the five men and one donkey. In the smoke and dust behind him, he vaguely saw more than a dozen cavalrymen chasing them, and the murderous intent spread.

Chapter 672 Accident

"Master, what's going on over there?!"

The sound of horseshoes and people's shouts, the four scholars naturally also saw it, and carefully poked their heads out from behind the tree. When they saw a group of cavalry chasing behind with spears, they quickly retreated and fell to the ground leaning against the tree. .

"Encountered a vendetta."

"Don't be afraid, the national teacher is here." "Yes, the national teacher is here, and I'm afraid of a bunch of barbarians... Ouch, the sound of horseshoes is approaching."

The old donkey was chewing the hay, and when he saw a donkey among the few people who came running, he shook his ears excitedly, got up from the ground, took small steps, and within two steps of bouncing, he was caught by Lu. Liangsheng slapped his hands and lay back on his stomach again.

"The matter of barbarians has nothing to do with us."

Taoist Toad in the bookshelf also pushed open the small door, how could this kind of excitement not be part of it?Frog Web snapped his fingers, lit the pipe, held it in his hand, jumped to the edge of the door and sat down, tapped his mouth, and the old god squinted at the five barbarians who were hunted down.

"It turns out that it's pretty good to watch others being chased, but it's not enough, it's not fun."

Looking at the distance with great interest, in the desert wind and sand, five Arabs were pulling a donkey and running staggeringly with baskets on it. They saw the same five people and a donkey resting under the tree over there. They looked like Greeks. , Hastily waved his hand, but there was no intention of moving at all, so he had to look back at the Byzantine cavalry who were about to catch up.

Gritting his teeth, he looked at the other four people behind him.

"Don't want the donkey, take the Hadith inside!"

The man leading the donkey let go of the rein, ran to the back and took out a scripture book from the hanging leather bag and stuffed it into his arms, panting and shouting to the front:

"Baishar, I can't run anymore."

The man in front of him with his head wrapped in a white cloth turned his head. The faces of the four people behind him were covered with sweat, panting heavily, but they still roared towards their door.

"A believer in Allah cannot learn to compromise!"

The four people in the back gritted their teeth, and without knowing where the strength came from, they abandoned their donkeys and struggled to keep up with the man in front, and hurried past the five Greeks under the tree over there.

Rumbling--

The sound of hoofbeats resounded on the ground, and the sand and dust splashed between the flying horses' hooves. The Byzantine cavalry who came on horseback also saw five people and a donkey under the tree from a distance. The leading knight was gesturing, Let his subordinates disperse and surround him, he squeezed his raised hand suddenly, and turned his eyes to the five people under the tree again.

"Five people...donkeys..."

Immediately, he let go of his clenched fist, and waved towards that side: "Catch them together, bring them back to Constantine, and hand them over to His Majesty, so that Daer of Calabosa can identify the murderer!"

Speaking Greek, Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting under the tree, frowned, and even the toad, who was knocking on the cigarette stick to pat the ashes, was taken aback for a moment, "Why are these guys coming towards us?"

"He came to catch us."

Lu Liangsheng put away the paper, dragged his long sleeves to stand up, held a magic weapon, and flicked it out at will. The Byzantine cavalry who came galloping forward seemed to be blinded by something, and when they saw it clearly, they suddenly turned in a direction towards On the other side, the empty desert rushed away, waving the spear in his hand as if he was fighting with someone, hitting farther and farther.

"Master."

The scholar fell off the rock and lost his mind to draw a map. He turned his head and shouted to the four scholars who were leaning against the tree trunk and sitting with their heads leaning on their heads: "There are four of you, pack up and get ready to go."

"Are you okay?" Ma Liu stretched his neck, looked around, and saw the dozen or so cavalrymen running away for some reason, his face suddenly showed joy, he got up and jumped a few times easily, shaking his body: "The barbarian It’s just barbarians, they’re menacing, and in the end they’re not shitting.”

Zhao Tang patted the dust on his body, "That's right, it's uncomfortable to be presumptuous in front of the national teacher."

Just as the four of them were about to struggle to grab the old donkey's reins, a voice suddenly came.

"Baishar thanks the friendly Greeks for their help."

Over there, the five Arabs who had fled before turned back, with gentle smiles on their thick beards and beards, "Without you, my companions and I would have been overtaken by Byzantine soldiers."

The Greek spoken by this person is not fluent, but Lu Liangsheng can still understand it. From the corner of his eye, he looked at these people. They were all in rough robes, with thick hands and feet, as if they often traveled long distances. They probably thought they were business travelers, but You should be more careful when you go out.

Even then, he smiled at the other party, cupped his fists and arched his hands.

"That's all, I just don't know why you were hunted down by them?"

Hearing this question, the man named Bai Shaer was also a little depressed. He went to the shade of the tree and asked his companions to retrieve the donkey that had run away. After that, he sat down on the rock next to him and beat his knee.

"We don't know why we were hunted down by them. Before we taught in Telush, we suddenly heard rumors that a siren was caught in the Mediterranean Sea. The rumor was that it was a sea monster that was half man, half fish. It caused a commotion in the city. I was disrupted, I just went to the next place as planned, I ran into the Persians at the border after leaving Telush, they were not friendly to us, on the way to transfer..."

The man suddenly chuckled.

"...On the way to the south, we met the Byzantine cavalry again. As soon as they saw us, they said that we had killed the governor of Kalabsa five times and took the arrest warrant. As a result, the Persians chased us up , The two sides have been fighting all year round, so they fought together first, and the five of us took advantage of the chaos and fled here."

After finishing speaking, he also took a sip from the water bag handed by his companion. After a long journey and then running wildly just now, he was very tired. After he breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly remembered what he said just now, and recalled the rhetoric when the Byzantine cavalry captured him. He turned his head and swept around, just like his side, there were exactly five people, plus a donkey.

For a moment, he suddenly understood something, and the smile on his face gradually froze.

But he still got up and went to shake Lu Liangsheng's hand with both hands. The latter would not refuse because of this courtesy, and shook hands with him with a smile.

Baishar nodded and followed suit:

"Your whereabouts, Bashar swears in the name of Allah, you will never do anything to those who have helped us."

At this time, the companion also found the donkey, and said goodbye to Lu Liangsheng and the others, put on a face mask and continued on the missionary journey, watching them walk away, four scholars coaxed the old donkey to come over, "National teacher, let's go too Bar."

Lu Liangsheng looked at the five backs that were getting farther and farther away, hummed lightly, stretched out his hand to take the rein, and turned to the north, making Wang Feng and the others point to the east, then looked at the north, and hurriedly followed superior.

"National teacher, the direction is wrong." "That's right, the east is the direction to return to the Central Plains."

When the tinkling copper bell rang for victory, Lu Liangsheng, who was walking in front, turned his face slightly, a little cold. Wang Feng, Ma Liu, Zhang Ti, and Zhao Tang looked at the handsome national teacher with fear, and shut their mouths instantly. .

In front, Lu Liangsheng turned his head and continued heading north.

"That merman was captured by the Byzantines. She saved me once, so I can't ignore it. Since I brought her back, I have to take her back, just like you."

The four of them looked at each other for a moment, then arched their hands.

"The national teacher is really benevolent and righteous." "Yes, the national teacher's righteous heart is rare in the world. He is really a role model for us!"

"...I wonder how the little barbarians can defeat the national teacher. Then the four of us will cheer for the national teacher and show our Sui country's momentum!!"

"To shut up!"

Lu Liangsheng turned around and scolded, and there was silence behind him for a while. Taoist Toad opened the small door, and called the four over, and asked them to say compliments to him. comfortable.

Acridine ah ah ah ~~

The old donkey looked back at the bookshelf, and excitedly stepped on his hoof, following behind his master. There were four scholars chatting and laughing along the way, but it was very lively.